The Greece government has declared on Thursday the Emergency status in Santorini due to the wave of Ladies That they shake the territory for almost two weeks, which has caused the mass escape of its inhabitants. The island and surrounding areas have registered on the last day dozens of earthquakes They still do not allow the local population to leave the guard, especially after the most powerful phenomenon to date was recorded on Wednesday night.
The Greek seismological agency has confirmed that shortly after 7 pm on Wednesday a Magnitude of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale. Also, between midnight and noon this Thursday there have been more than 20 earthquakes that have exceeded magnitude 4.
The state of emergency, announced by Civil Protection in a statement, It will remain in force at least until March 1 And it is declared in order to immediately attend to any urgent need that has been presented on the island. According to the News247 portal, the measure makes possible the rapid construction of infrastructure to safeguard the stability of the volcanic boiler without public tender or other requirements provided by law in normal situations.
As a precautionary measure, the authorities maintain suspended classes and works, while recommending the population not to approach certain coastal areas. During the last days, at least 11,000 people have abandoned the island and the only ones who remain are very few tourists with some 4,000 residents.
The fear of the experts is that at some point there is an earthquake of magnitude 6, without for now being clear when it could take place or how long the current succession of tremors will last. In this sense, the Professor of Natural Disaster Management, Effthimis Lekkas, already warned on Wednesday that there is a “high risk” that landslides from all the boiler are registered, at the edge of which the Capital of Santorini, Fira, and one of its largest peoples, Oia.
Tremors every ten minutes
More than 6,400 earthquakes have registered in the maritime zone between Santorini and Amorgos between January 26 and February 3, of which about 800 had a magnitude greater than 2.5, according to the Seismology Laboratory of the University of Athens . The Ladies have not ceased this Thursday and dozens of earthquakes of a magnitude between 1.2 and 4.6 These two archipelago islands shake approximately every 10 minutes Of the cycled, in the Aegean Sea.
The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has repeatedly asked to “keep calm”, will go to Santorini this Friday together with the Minister of Civil Protection, Vasilis Kikilias, reported the SKAI station. While, The emergency teams found on the island have been reinforced during the last hours: A helicopter and four ships of the Coast Guard, in addition to 21 vessels such as tugs, large fishermen and ferris, are on alert in the area.
Meanwhile, the Central Union of the Chambers of Commerce of Greece (Keee) has asked the government on Thursday “Economically and institutionally” to the inhabitants of Santorinisince they calculate that the earthquakes will have a negative impact in the medium and long term on the economy, because the main engine is tourism.
This seismic activity is due to Movement of tectonic plates in the underwater fault From Ándros, located between Santorini and Amorgos, and not to the two volcanoes in the area, although this does not mean that tremors cannot rekindle volcanic activity, according to experts.
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